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'Clements has a knack for writing suspenseful sure-footed conflict scenes: His recounting of the ...

This comprehensive history of Japanese animation draws on Japanese primary sources and testimony ...

A guide to the history of China's capital, from before its rise to prominence as the seat of empi...

Tokyo, which in Japanese means the "e;Eastern Capital,"e; has only enjoyed that name and ...

Prince Saionji Kinmochi (1849-1940). The Japanese delegation at the Paris Peace Conference did no...

Gu Weijun, a.k.a. Wellington Koo (1887-1985). Born in Shanghai and raised in the city's Internati...

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'From the Fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord.'Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, the...

His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess....

Japanese animation is at the nexus of an international multimedia industry worth over $23.6 billi...